AuthorTopic: Which Media Player(s) for VL 6 (Read 26291 times)

Yes, you need to load the sub at the same time you load the file. VLC has interesting advanced features and is nice for inet streams, but the ui is not friendly, actually i find it uncomfortable. But is a sure option if nothing else plays the file.

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"There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite."Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars of the Tortoise. --Jumalauta!!

VLC plays CDs more reliably than Xine (sans video window). In fact, VLC is the only viable backup to XMMS for playing CDs, and is therefore an essential player in my book. One thing that may confuse you about VLC's media player applet is that there are duplicate "Next track" and "Previous track" buttons, and only one set works, the set of buttons in-line with the blue slider bullet, in the lower right corner. The valid buttons appear only after the CD has been recognized.

Also, their software is unbelieveably bloated. The latest PDF reader for Windows from Adobe clocks in at 21MB. FoxIt Reader, which does much the same thing, is a mere 1.5MB download. Go figure that one!

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"As people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers". Robert G. Ingersoll

cross-platform, based on open standards is vague enough.... What are open standards anyways? And how is it 'based' on it? I guess it's easier to use what's already there than it is to reinvent the wheel huh.

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Adobe Media Player enables higher quality Flash format playback

Flash is not very open.

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the ability to download and view videos offline

right, can't I just use a browser for that? why do I need some ugly player for that?

I can quote pretty much every line from that and make a comment of how it's not by definition a good thing for anyone but Adobe. I can only read the announcement as a direct threat to anything open. Adobe is trying to push it's other products along with this new player and make every web developer believe they need to use it by using terms like "Rich Internet Applications". The web won't gain much except more wasted bandwidth. It's meant to make Adobe rich, not the web.

My system is a gtk2 only applications.Thus I don't included the others that do not use gtk2xmms - gtk1mplayer - gtk1, I failed to compile the gtk2 versionxine - x11gxine - gtk2, but feel short compared to vlc.xfmedia - gtk2, but still alpha quality.amarok - kdekplayer - kde